#aaah her face was a bit more smiley but u get it

[toriliashine]

Shadowheart in the dark judiciar fit got me busting out laughing, imagining her kicking her feet and giggling while she has it on and she looks like this

Plus idk if im delulu but my tav looks at wyll so dreamily here

[skautism]

Dahlonega Newsies!

This is INCREDIBLY out of order and I'm super sorry for that shdjsjsjs

ACT 1

-Crutchie has the curliest floofiest hair aaah

-Also he was so nervous???? Shsjsjjd

-jack has a vibrato that could kill

-Santa fe prologue was on the balcony on my right (stage left??) and ctb started on my left with race and Albert and then specs with them and I think Henry and Elmer on the balcony that prologue was on

-there was lots of grabbing on persons arm and then a bit of jumping around djdjdjd

-At blind and mute and dead, race covered finch's eyes, and then he fell into races arms, and then on the other side of the stage one newsie VAULTED the other

-there were a few race/finch moments but also ravey

-during "I got personality" jack was like pointing at crutchie and being smiley and it was cute

-during "waiting makes me ansty, I likes living chancey", at chancey finch snapped his slingshot like he shot it

-bc girlsie les, "I can see her legs" leaves us w baby lesbian les and I am HERE for this

-medda and the bowery beauties were in red and black omg

-5 bowery beauties and I'd die for all of them

-jack noticed Katherine up on the balcony and pointed her out to davey and then he went up to her

-fhdjjdjddjjd the drawing they made for Kath was not good but very representative of a 1 minute drawing

-specs didn't have his shoe for real

-"I can't find my shoe! Its every other day...."

-"Whaddya call these guys?" And one girl said "names boots" and FUCK YEAH

-"a most auspicious manner" specs: I thought we did good..?

-after watch what happens, they dragged back katherine's desk with her still writing on it

-during santa fe, jack was on one staircase and snyder was dragging crutchie on a second one and it was parallel and the staircases crossed but were going opposite directions and it broke me

-and they ended up on oppisite ends of the stage when the stairs were dragged to the side balconies I almost CRIED

-the scabs had black pape bags when they were scabbing that destroyed me too

-Romeo GAVE KATH FLOWERS, he is BABEY

-and then Davey took them and yeeted them away when Romeo asked him "how'd she know my name" >:/

-one girl looked at me and I died djskdjdjs

-medda and JoJo both have braces and I stan

-also JoJo had red suspenders??? Hella????

-redhead finch!!!! He was also so bouncy all the time omg

-"my skullbusting arm could use a day of rest" and one newsie started to go after him and another dragged her back by the leg saying "get back here stupid"

-jack said to Davey "youve got to take les away" when the delanceys came D:

-why is jack in red

-ughfhhfhf I'd die for kath and medda

-I dont trust this productions Hannah,,,, she seemed more in favor of raising the price than she should

-I checked the playbill, EVERY BROOKLN NEWSIE IS A GIRL!!!!

-I caught one of the tossed papers, its an actual page of a dalonega newspaper

-Seriously race and finch were near each other and talked a lot I ship

-the crazy flip that Jordan did in live was actually done holy shit???? No pape spin but DANG

-why r there so many cute girls I'm dying ok

-tommy boy is Smol

-crutchie kept singing when everyone had stopped and said "geez" when he got dragged back for the photo

-Snyder HIT crutchie in the HEAD I CRIED

-the backdrop had the names of irl newsies including Annie Kelly (there was also blink's real name and David Simmons)

-I heard the names blue and either Ronnie or johnny(???) during seize the day

ACT 2

-Romeo had a bandage on his head and blood on his face :((

-Another person has his wrist all bandaged

-There was spoon playing on tap shoes!!

-it felt like everyone burst into song IN THE UNIVERSE, instead of a tap number for the show

-like everyone was yelling like "whoa!!" bc why tf r u tap dancing???

-at one point 3 people were picked up by the waist (like how you hold a cat by the stomach when you're 5) and spun around

-Kath starts tap dancing and specs yells "I like it!!" He seemed so high energy the whole way and then Romeo yelled "what is this?!?!" Bruh you gave her flowers

-broom tap solo had FIVE people aaaa

-like the 2 on the sides had their brooms tossed to them from the edges

-during lftr crutchie was so optimistic til the end and when he said "just go" he yelled it and sounded so desperate :''''(

-one person kicked the floor above them instead of going "shh!"

-"tell me how quitting does crutchie any good?!" *literally just glares for 2 seconds* "EXACTLY"

-"and we've got jack!" *hug* 😭😭😭😭😭

-les has girlf we stan

-ok through this whole show?? I've actually enjoyed Pulitzer as a villain??? That has NEVER happened before??? Both version of the bottom line were actually really good villain songs

-HIGH FEMME SPOT HIGH FEMME PIRATE AESTHETIC SPOT

-SHE ALSO HAD RED LEATHER BOOTS THAT IM POSITIVE WERE DOC MARTENS

-ALL THE BROOKLYN GIRLS HAD PIRATE-Y AESTHETICS

-"THATS OUR CUE *GIRLS*" STEP ON ME

-STEP

-ON

-ME

-when jack betrayed the strike one brooklyn girl yelled to let her strangle him and u go girl

-I've never been soft for jatherine until now they had CHEMISTRY

-literally not even jackcrutchie had that much chemistry this show

-Les and spot sorta seemed to have a friendship going on I say mentor/student lesbians bc baby lesbian and powerful high femme lesbian

-literally davey jack and spot all freaked over jack shaking Roosevelt's hand

-spot and davey were both just ":000" and grabbing jacks hand

-spot had her arm on daveys shoulder at one point spavey spavey spavey

-jack and Kath kissed and everyone was grossed out one brooklyn girl (same one who wanted to throttle jack) covered her eyes and tommy boy yelled "thats gross!!" And covered his eyes with his paper

-jack and crutchie got their reunion hug ughfhfhfhfhfhfbfhhd 😭😭😭😭😭

-crutchie had this giant blood stain on his side :''''(

POST SHOW

-My playbill got signed by jack davey and crutchie!!!!

-I also got photos with them (one w just me and the actor who played crutchie, the other all 3), and Katherine, medda, and spot and the girl who I think said she was boots (see act 1)!!!!!!!!!!!!

-Literally my only complaint is there seemed to be an effort to make this show as heterosexual as possible, even with the background characters

[jess1820]

ti amo nyc! seeing phoenix 3x with feenix friends (jul 5 - 7 2018)

So! 3 days of phoenix with wonderful people in new york (my first time in nyc!), I don’t even know where to begin x.x (Pictures are on IG, video on YT). The Speciale shows are beautiful and incredible, and the boys put so much thought, detail, and love into it all. It was one of the best experiences in my life and it was so fun seeing everyone at the shows!!

under the cut is pretty much a rambling summary of the shows (amazing and adorably decorated), cute moments, and when we met them (ft. my fav convo with branco abt pokemon and witnessing brotherly tension) 

💘 @andersfel @funkyphoenixfan @thesunwillshineagain

7/5 | Night 1 💗

the show The show was amazing! It had been 7 months since I had last seen them. We were between Deck and Chris, I settled for the second row (I could have squished to the barrier but it was more comfortable to just be behind a little). That day was super humid and hot, so this show was probably the most sweatiest, but so satisfying. It was such a fun time! We got consolation prizes which is always super great! And countdown for Mads aaaaa (it was her 21st birthday, guess who (Chris ofc) sung to her 😭!!!) It was such a beautiful moment. They played Goodbye Soleil first and she was a bit down, but once it finished, COUNTDOWN happened! She was so happy it was the best reaction (what a complete 180 lol). Telefono was such a tune to hear live, I loved it! They were using the telefono booth instead of the red telephone (after the show you could get a polaroid in the booth for $1, such a cute idea whaaaa!!).

I thought for the Speciale they chose to use different guitars (Chris’s mint green, Branco’s array of guitars (black and red) instead of the og guitars (telecaster and cream bullet), but turns out they just didn’t have their regular guitars in time because their gear was still being held by air france until the 4th show lol.   

after the show

thomas After the show, we went outside to wait (we should have wandered the disco afterparty that was happening inside! The boys were hanging out meeting fans). About an hour later, Thomas came outside first wearing a white tee and backpack on. It was a small group outside so he went around to everyone, signing stuff and taking photos, and he hugged everyone too! He was so nice and gentle as usual. He left shortly after because he said it was past his kids bedtime and he had to put them into bed, something sweet like that 😭. Romy was at the show (with we think, Cedric’s daughter?) and they were helping run the merch stand! It was too cute!! They were so sweet. They were also in front of the barrier at some songs on the far right jumping and having such a good time during the show! It was so pure. (And I guess Vee is bffs with Romy now hahaha).   

deck Ok next up, Deck came out and was very chatty and goofy. He didn’t go to the afterparty. Vee said something about him being a charmer and he imitated playing a violin to be romantic, oh, he is so precious. Deck was really examining the Rally single I brought to get signed and he was like oh this is very rare and was looking at it, front and back. He was so nice and so cute 💘.

branco (and chris) Branco came out next and was so pretty wearing a koi fish print shirt. He has the best shirts. B was very friendly. Mads brought up the Coco thing (he signed as Coco on her INBLT booklet from the Manila show) and we got to hear him talk about his nickname again, it was so sweet and precious (his nieces call him Coco if you need a refresher). I love hearing him speak in general aaaa (you know me). Gotta say I also loved hearing him yell “Monsieur Mazzalai” at Chris because he was the last one needed to sign Mad’s awesome jacket. Chris made a face at him 😂. I had a few minutes with B and I am v happy he signed his name with the music note doodle! Sadly I didn't have the time to get to Chris bc he had to leave in a separate car (the rest of the boys got into one van, I remember Branco had a whole foods market bag aha). I did get to watch Chris run to the car with his suitcase which was funny and adorable, I love him. 

7/6 | Night 2 💗

the show They did long distance call!! Aaah! I was finally at the barrier, right between Thomas and Deck (literally the center can you believe it). The show was amazing as usual and they had balloons that would rain down on us in italian flag colors. It was at this show where a lot of balloons were falling onto the stage so Deck was using his bass and hitting the balloons (og it was so precious). He was having so much fun. I got a Deck wink during the show too aaa 💖 . Also, they played Lovelife with Giorgio Poi which was really cool! The boys had told us yesterday that they had a special planned for tonight, and this was that! And, I got to touch Thomas’s hair lol he was in our section a lot! 💘

after the show

so many faces We stayed for the afterparty because the boys had told us last night to stay and meet them here. It was funny because we were all awkward at the party so we followed them around like children while other people were actually partying.

We saw Sofia!!! She was gorgeous, literally radiating. It was unreal to see her in person. Cosima was with her! We also saw Chris’s girlfriend! Ah they were so cute (they were getting sake, dancing by the DJ, it was adorable). Chris was going around everywhere, drinking a lot of sake and beer lol. I flagged him down once to say hi and he said hello and he pat my back and LEFT 😂. So I had to flag him down again to ask for rally to be signed. It was a bit uncomfortable to follow them around and when there’s a moment/you get the guts to say hi they are either with someone else or with family and you’re just standing there so awkwardly lol. It’s easier to talk to them when they’re outside vs inside with music playing and it being a bit dark. I think we all agreed on this.

branco I also spotted Branco too! I found him near the back by the merch and asked for a photo again. My phone was such a failure that it took a while to get a photo so when it was done he asked if it was okay, twice 😭 (it’s still a bit blurry but I think it’s cute). Sweet bb koala you are so precious 🐨. 

7/7 | Night 3 💗

the show We were back at the barrier for the last night (for us), back to the right side between Deck and Chris. We got to hear playground love (waaaaaaah) and tuttifrutti! Playground love was so beautiful og 😭.

Throughout each night during sunskrupt, Branco would take a water break. A massive water break. He would drink water, keep the bottle at his lips and look into the screen, pondering life, then take another long drink of water. It was so long we were laughing and watching him drink water each night 😂 It was such a thing. I was that dork who took photos of this moment hahaha.

After playground love was countdown (when Chris came out, he brought his own guitar instead of picking up the one that was on stage, already tuned I think). Going into countdown, he had to put a capo on the guitar and tune it a bit, which took a very short amount of time but it was still something he had to do, and he was like ah merde! It was really funny and cute to hear him swear on stage since it was dead quiet 😂 

cute speciale things I tried their phoenix sake and took a polaroid in the telefono booth! It’s so cute. I also tried their childhood sandwiches on a “DAMN good baguette” (yeah they advertised it like this) and I gotta say, it sure was tasty. I didn’t get to try the gelato. Everything was so cute, they had ti amo balloons and a disco ball. They had a DJ too (I remember seeing Hedlund and Daniel Glass DJ-ing). The super mercato was so cool but I heard it kept breaking. Luckily I was able to get the pins and patches I wanted! (Though I didn’t notice they had a blue ti amo patch until it was too late!) The merch table also had a lot of cool merch and some old stuff from Bankrupt!. The entire vibe of the place was amazing. Every glass surface was graffitied with phoenix ti amo nyc 💘.  

after the show

chris and branco (ft. the greatest conversation) The afterparty this night felt a bit more natural for us. Maybe because we knew what to expect, but overall it was just more comfortable. At the party, we saw only Chris wandering around. We spoke to him and got to tell him we were all friends online and he was really surprised (it was cute). He was v thankful for us cheering so much! He was so smiley aaah. Mads finally was able to give him the cutest phoenix doodle she made (literal cutest he found himself and kept pointing to it 😭). I also remember a bit where Vee was talking about Deck’s spider pose and Chris was asking how to do it and then he tried to do it 😂 Chris is the best hahaha

After the venue kicked us out/ the party ended, we went outside and found that Branco was already outside talking to other fans. I was being silly on this last night and was speaking (was I loud?) about how cute he was to my friends and saying dumb things like look at those eyebrows and those cheeks (everything abt him is so cute ok i love this koala) and he stared into my soul 3 times (while talking to another group of fans) 🙈 and I didn’t know what to do im sorry for staring at u B 😭 ��� (you’re so pretty god!!)

Ok once it was our turn to talk to B, we talked to him abt…..pokemon 😂 (I don’t want to say too much but supposedly he has pokemon go and I love pokemon so you can imagine why we went down this path). It was a perfect opportunity since Vee also likes pokemon and her backpack featured the eevee evolutions. He was like ahh pokemon…. We asked him to pick a favorite from the backpack and I think he was confused (it was dark) and he pointed to eevee and named it as pikachu. The way he said it was so cute oh my god. He was like that’s pikachu (he said it twice). We were telling him that’s eevee and then he was saying that he is very old from another time, the shakespearean time. I think Vee then said he’s immortal or a vampire and he didn’t deny it. (idk why) I had to bring up the old cringe photoshoot they did where he looks like a vampire and he was watching and listening to me so intently as I was describing it. Mads saved it and just said it was posted on their IG and he was like ahh. (He probably was like these girls are so weird). Then he said that he knew the pokemon names but in french and so he pointed to vaporeon and said that’s aquali. It was SO CUTE. WOW. I can still hear his voice saying aquali. Literally so precious. 

Switching topics, Mads was asking if he saw the super cute doodle she did that she gave to Chris and I think he said he didn’t, but Chris said he showed him? (this part is a little fuzzy for me). Branco said that Chris never lies, called him over and then they were discussing if Chris had shown him/if Branco was present. Chris said that Branco probably forgot, then shortly after they started to speak in french to each other and we felt like shit was going down right in front of us omg (brothers fighting?!). At the end of it Branco opened his mouth without saying anything, then closed it, speechless (or, I thought of a cat showing its teeth lol) it was insane.  

Aaaaaa if you made it here thanks for reading 💗 It was such a cool time seeing phoenix with the feenix gang from online! I hope we all get to do it again in the future ✨ You all made this experience so memorable.